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Only women to teach at primary level: Qazi
ISLAMABAD, Jan 15(Daily Times): The government is devising a
policy under which only female teachers will teach at primary level as they have
proved to be the best at this level, said Federal Education Minister Javed
Ashraf Qazi here on Saturday.
He was speaking at a function, organised by
the National Education Assessment System (NEAS) of the Ministry of Education to
share its nationwide findings and assessment about students, teachers, schools
and parents.
Qazi said that the government also wanted to include the
subject of Urdu as a language and not the medium of instruction in coming years.
The science curriculum will be improved and upgraded to bring it at par with
international standards, he said, adding that the history curriculum would be
made realistic and objective.
The NEAS was established with the financial
assistance of the World Bank and DFID under the Education Ministry's education
sector reform action plan. A specific priority within the overall plan is to
build assessment capacity at the school, provincial and federal levels to better
measure the learning outcomes and improve the quality and effectiveness of
programme interventions. Central to the project is the development of
institutional capacity of the ministry at the federal level and the departments
of education at the provincial and area levels to monitor standards of education
nationally.
The minister called upon the federal, provincial and areas'
implementing agencies to use NEAS findings for preparation of a plan of action
to improve the curriculum content, delivery, teacher training and development of
learning materials, including textbooks.
The NEAS conducted sample-based
national assessments for grade 4 and grade 8 levels in areas of language,
mathematics, science and social studies. In order to ascertain valid information
on students learning across the nation, the NEAS selected a representative
sample of the nation while using the list of government schools in the National
Education Management Information System (NEMIS). The data also analysed
different educational systems such as mosque, primary, middle, secondary and
higher secondary. Based on this sampling design an assessment was carried out on
a national sample of 11,954 students from 127 districts of the country.
According to the findings of the assessment, girls performed better than boys on
language and science tests. Mathematics and social studies scores did not differ
significantly by gender or location.
The results showed that urban
students performed significantly better on language and social studies tests,
but the maths and science scores did not differ significantly across rural and
urban areas. In the language tests less than 10 percent of students passed
three-fourth items on conceptual understanding and interpretation. In
informative writing less than 20 percent of students got a maximum score on this
competency. In mathematics less than two percent of students were able to reason
in settings involving application of concept definition and less than one
percent were able to demonstrate the selection and application of mathematics
processes in different situations correctly.
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| Education News | | Updated: 08 Feb, 2012 |
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